Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Description:
Advocacy for battered women often focuses on physical danger, but more attention needs to be paid to other familial, financial, and emotional risks. These include losing housing, moving to higher crime areas, and losing custody of children. This presentation describes an alternative approach, Multiple Criteria Decision Making. In this framework, victims can identify multiple risks that they wish to address and evaluate multiple plans to identify the steps will both promote safety and maximize as many other outcomes as possible.